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hedges - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: hedge
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boundary, obstacle, especially one made of plants
Synonyms: barrier, bush, enclosure, fence, guard, hurdle, protection, screen, shrubbery, thicket, hedgerow, quickset, windbreak
Main Entry: hedge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: avoid, dodge
Synonyms: blow hot and cold*, cop a plea, cop out*, duck, equivocate, evade, flip-flop*, fudge*, hem and haw*, pass the buck*, prevaricate, pussyfoot*, quibble, shilly-shally*, shuck*, shuffle, sidestep, stall, stonewall*, temporize, tergiversate, waffle*, be noncommittal, beat around the bush, give the run around, jive*, run around, sit on the fence, tergiverse
Antonyms: confront, face, meet
Main Entry: hedge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: enclose
Synonyms: block, border, cage, confine, coop, corral, edge, fence, girdle, hinder, immure, obstruct, pen, restrict, ring, surround, hem in, siege
Antonyms: release
Main Entry: bramble
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: thorny bush
Synonyms: burr, cleaver, hedge, nettle, prick, shrub, spray, thorn, brier, catch weed, furze, goose grass, gorse, prickly shrub, thistle, thistle sage
Main Entry: brush
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: scrappy bushes
Synonyms: coppice, copse, cover, grove, hedge, scrub, shrubbery, thicket, undergrowth, boscage, bracken, brushwood, chaparral, dingle, fern, gorse, sedge, spinney, underwood
Main Entry: bush
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: shrubs; woodland
Synonyms: backcountry, backwoods, bramble, brush, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, outback, plant, scrub, shrubbery, thicket, vine, wilderness, boscage, briar, chaparral, scrubland, the wild
Notes: bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up
Main Entry: defend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: protect
Synonyms: avert, battle, bulwark, cherish, conserve, contend, cover, entrench, espouse, fend off, fight, fortify, foster, garrison, guard, hedge, hold, house, insure, maintain, mine, nourish, oppose, preserve, prevent, resist, retain, safeguard, save, screen, secure, shelter, shield, stave off, sustain, take in, uphold, war, watch, withstand, beat off, care for, fight for, guard against, hold at bay, keep safe, look after, panoply, provide sanctuary, repel danger, ward off, watch over
Antonyms: abandon, attack, desert, leave, quit, relinquish, resign, surrender
Main Entry: dodge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: avoid
Synonyms: dark, deceive, ditch, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, evade, fence, fend off, fudge*, hedge, lurch, malinger, parry, pussyfoot*, shake, shake off*, shift, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, skirt, slide, slip, swerve, tergiversate, trick, weasel*, circumlocute, get around, get out of, give the slip, juke, move to the side, put the move on, short-circuit, skip out on, tergiverse, turn aside
Antonyms: confront, encounter, face, meet, stand up to
Main Entry: enclose
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: put inside, surround
Synonyms: blockade, bound, cage, circle, circumscribe, confine, coop, corral, cover, encircle, encompass, enfold, enshroud, environ, fence, hedge, imbue, immure, implant, impound, imprison, include, induct, insert, intern, jail, limit, pen, restrict, veil, wrap, block off, box up, close in, encase, fence off, hem in, lock in, lock up, mew, mure, set apart, shut in, wall in
Antonyms: free, release, let go, unloose
Main Entry: equivocate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: avoid an issue
Synonyms: blow hot and cold*, cavil, con, cop a plea, cop out*, dodge, double-talk, elude, escape, eschew, evade, falsify, fence, fib, flip-flop*, fudge*, hedge, hem and haw*, lie, palter, parry, pass the buck*, prevaricate, pussyfoot, quibble, shuck, shuffle, sidestep, stonewall*, tergiversate, waffle*, weasel*, beat around the bush, beg the question, cloud the issue, cover up, give run around, jive*, mince words, run around, sit on the fence, tell white lie, tergiverse
Antonyms: face, meet, speak on
Main Entry: evade
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: get away from
Synonyms: avoid, baffle, balk, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, eschew, fence, fend off*, flee, fly, fudge*, hedge, hide, lie, parry, pretend, prevaricate, pussyfoot, put off, shift, shirk, shuck, shuffle, shun, shy, sidestep, tergiversate, trick, waffle*, weasel*, beat around bush, beg the question, get around, give the runaround, keep distance, lay low*, lead on a merry chase, pass up, slip out, sneak away, steer clear of
Antonyms: face, meet, take on
Main Entry: fence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: barrier used to enclose a piece of land
Synonyms: Cyclone, balustrade, bar, barbed wire, barricade, block, defense, dike, guard, hedge, net, palisade, rail, railing, rampart, roadblock, shield, stockade, stop, wall, backstop, boards, chains, paling, pickets, posts, stakes
Main Entry: fence
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: enclose or separate an area
Synonyms: bound, cage, circumscribe, confine, coop, corral, defend, encircle, fortify, girdle, guard, hedge, hem, immure, pen, protect, rail, restrict, secure, surround, wall, mew, mure
Antonyms: release, set free, uncoop
Main Entry: fence
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: dodge; beat around the bush
Synonyms: avoid, baffle, cavil, duck, equivocate, evade, feint, foil, hedge, maneuver, outwit, parry, prevaricate, quibble, shift, shirk, sidestep, stonewall*, tergiversate
Antonyms: face, meet
Main Entry: fudge
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: fake, misrepresent
Synonyms: avoid, color, cook up*, dodge, embellish, embroider, equivocate, evade, exaggerate, falsify, hedge, magnify, overstate, pad, patch, shuffle, slant, stall
Antonyms: tell truth
Main Entry: hesitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: wait; be uncertain
Synonyms: alternate, balance, balk, blow hot and cold*, dally, debate, defer, delay, demur, dillydally*, dither, doubt, equivocate, falter, flounder, fluctuate, fumble, hang*, hang back, hedge, hem and haw*, hold back, hover, linger, oscillate, pause, ponder, pussyfoot*, scruple, seesaw*, shift, shrink, stammer, stop, straddle, stumble, stutter, swerve, tergiversate, vacillate, waffle*, waver, weigh, be irresolute, be reluctant, be unwilling, hold off, pull back, shy away, sit on fence, think about, think twice
Antonyms: attack, carry on, continue, go, go ahead, persevere, resolve
Main Entry: hurdle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: barrier, obstacle
Synonyms: bar, barricade, blockade, complication, difficulty, fence, hamper, handicap, hedge, hindrance, impediment, interference, mountain, obstruction, rub, snag, stumbling block, traverse, wall
Antonyms: opening, clear path
Main Entry: insure
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: protect, secure
Synonyms: assure, cinch, cover, guarantee, guard, hedge, indemnify, register, safeguard, shield, underwrite, warrant
Main Entry: pen
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: enclosure
Synonyms: cage, coop, corral, fence, fold, hedge, hutch, jail, penitentiary, prison, sty, wall*
Antonyms: open space
Main Entry: pen
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: enclose
Synonyms: box, cage, case, confine, coop, corral, hedge, close in, fence in, hem in, mew, shut in
Antonyms: free, release, let go
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